Theresa expressed atheist doubts, and wrote many letters saying she felt an emptiness and doubted there was anything larger.
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1655720,00.html
Writing a series of confessional letters over her life she wrote 'call, I cling, I want … and there is no One to answer … no One on Whom I can cling … no, No One. Alone … Where is my Faith … even deep down right in there is nothing, but emptiness & darkness … My God … how painful is this unknown pain … I have no Faith’.
Charlie Brown was created by Charles Schultz, Brown was the ultimate loser, a perpetually depressed boy who never got to kick the football of life and watch it soar. Schultz explored various political, social, religious and philosophical ideas with his Peanuts characters. He also heavily addressed the nature of personal happiness.
I would hope to change this a little from its original design and paint it.
Mind = blown. Awesome.
ReplyDeleteThanks Melanie, that was quite the compliment. But what is it that you liked so much about it?.
DeleteAs a student in a former Jesuit school, I wasn't taught this about Mother Theresa. Really, honest! We were only taught her life, work and history as well as to emulate her behaviour for the "greater glory of god" I never realised that she had her "doubts" as well which is really an eye opener to say the least.
ReplyDeleteI guess even the ones most trusting of their faith lose the ball sometimes. The picture makes sense as well, could be your best one yet after all that description underneath it.
Thanks. Schools are power structures, and power structures protect their assets just like any business. There is no benefit to making independent thinkers, critical thinkers are bad for those in charge, because they question everything. Theresa or Agnes as she was originally called was not a wonderful person. She took money from dictators, she kept people in poverty because she believed due to her religious conviction that poverty was noble and led to God.She used dirty needles and her hospitals were disgusting. With the money she earned, for she was very rich, she could have really helped people and instead chose not to. And we have to know, at the time she was travelling around the world, meeting killers like Papa Doc from Haiti and Ceausescu from Romania her church was protecting pedophiles and moving them from parish to parish for them to rape and destroy again.
DeletePower structures act like psychopaths, it is the same as a corporate structure, it destroys individuality, it crushes free thinking and it leaves you open to massive exploitation.
George Carlin said 'I love individuals, i hate groups, because pretty soon groups have little hats and arm bands and fight songs, and a list of people their going to visit at 3 am'.
haha now there is a pair you won't often see. A lot can be learned from poor old Charlie Brown, he did put much into the stories.
ReplyDeleteThanks Patt, yeah he was well known, thought not to people who just took it at face value, for introducing psychoanalysis in to his strips. Having his characters experiment with different philosophy's, analyse their dreams and wonder about their futures. It was always a notch above the usual funny pages.
Deletenone of us are saints :) if half the world can stop judging each other, you think the world would be a better place ? i think it would.
ReplyDeleteMe too Jaya, people should always try to do the right things. Martin Luthor King said 'It is always time to do what is right'.
DeleteI had no idea about Mother Theresa questioning her faith. Really love the description of Charlie Brown too. Really great work.
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